To be entitled to something implies that the something has been earned…but not in your possession.
Why are we allowing others to hold what we’ve earned and dole it out at their whims or on their timetables?

Social Security has been paid into by both the future recipient and their employer but neither have access to the money.

The employer will never see that money again and the recipient has to wait decades…while the government has access immediately.

What could possibly go wrong?

Early on in life I grew to despise the word “deserve”. When the word deserve was used I knew it was something I’d felt I’d earned but still didn’t have.

I stopped using deserve and anytime someone said to me that they deserved something I would explain that the difference between deserve and earned wasn’t expectation.

It was execution.

You may believe you deserved an A or deserved to win.

Both are irrelevant.

You either have the A or you don’t.

You either won or you didn’t.

We either have access to our money or we don’t.

We don’t.

It doesn’t matter that we put the money there.

It doesn’t matter that the government forces us to do it.

They have access.

We do not.

If the powers that be were ethical, quality humans, like most of America, these shaky systems would probably be okay.

If we had moral gatekeepers we would be fine.

But we don’t…and we know it.

Social Security is worse than a Ponzi Scheme.

Without the criminality of the Federal Government to borrow unlimited amounts of money, SS would have defaulted years ago.